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TIL The US Government Secretly Contaminated U.S. Cities in the 1950s-1960s

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LQX6V TIL that 95 percent of southern Louisiana is corporate owned.
Z8gLv TIL Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders was fired after she suggested that masturbation should be taught in schools
VB4LZ TIL: An old english medicine receipt book from the 10th century contains a receipt for eyesalve consisting of vine, garlic, leeks and bile from a cow's stomach. Then it has to sit for 9 days in a brass bowl. Test from 2015 showed it to have a similar effect as modern antibiotics.
d8OYK TIL researchers found that a blood test called PanSeer detected cancer in 95% of patients up to 4 years before they got a conventional cancer diagnosis. The test determines if the DNA in blood plasma was shed by tumours based on precence of particular methyl groups.
wLDj8 TIL about the facekini, a mask for people to wear at the beach to protect from sunburn.